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Billy Mumphrey will be the guest speaker at the Friday night prayer meeting, July 28th at 7:30 p.m. Bring your friends, family and neighbors to the prayer meeting and the Eucharistic Celebration following the prayer meeting.

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ENVIRONMENT -- AMERICA SWELTERS DURING THE HOTTEST YEAR TO DATE: “The first six months of 2006 were the warmest, on average, since the United States started keeping records in 1895, and global warming is a contributing factor," a U.S. climate expert said yesterday. "July, August and September are forecast to continue the hot trend over most of the United States, including the vast area of the country west of the Mississippi River, as well as New England, Florida and southern Alaska," Reuters reports. This week has seen "record high temperatures in New York and Connecticut," according to the the National Weather Service," while heat readings "topped 100 F from California to Texas and South Dakota to Kansas." Meanwhile, "vast swathes of Europe have baked in tropical temperatures that have claimed nine lives in France alone," while Britain "recorded its hottest July day ever," surpassing a record set in 1911.

Why aren't the media depicting Jews as the entrails-devouring demons that they are?

I'll tell you why, truth-seeker:

The Jews OWN this country.

Anti-semitism isn't anti-Zionism... and I like both.

Israel Hints at a Full-Scale Invasion

Jul 20, 9:09 AM (ET)

By HUSSEIN DAKROUB

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli troops met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas Thursday as they crossed into Lebanon to seek tunnels and weapons for a second straight day, and Israel hinted at a full-scale invasion. Israeli warplanes also launched new airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, shortly after daybreak.

The attacks were followed by strikes in the guerrillas' heartland in the south and eastern Bekaa Valley.

Bombings on Wednesday killed as many as 70 people, according to Lebanese television, making it the deadliest day since the fighting began July 12.

Russia sharply criticized Israel over its onslaught against Lebanon, now in its ninth day, sparked when Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Israel's actions have gone "far beyond the boundaries of an anti-terrorist operation" and repeating calls for an immediate cease-fire.

At least 306 people have been killed in Lebanon since the Israeli campaign began,

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060720/D8IVO1EO0.html

WITH "ALLIES" LIKE THESE...

It's no wonder we're losing the "War on Terror (c)":

Based on what senior Afghans have explained in detail to American officials, Pakistan is now supporting the Taliban in a manner similar to the way it supported the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviets two decades ago.

Posted by not sam at July 20, 2006 02:51 PM

Uh huh...yup...

The emperor's new veto

Bush's first veto of Congress marks the collapse of his imperial presidency -- and a crisis for the paranoid style he and his party have mastered.

By Sidney Blumenthal

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/07/20/bush_veto/

The first principle underlying the Bush presidency was never more succinctly articulated than at the July 12 hearing called by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Supreme Court had ruled two weeks earlier, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that the administration's detainee policy was in violation of the Geneva Conventions and without a legal basis. Steven Bradbury, the acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, appeared to defend not only the discredited policy but also the notion that as commander in chief Bush has the authority to make or enforce any law he wants -- the explicit basis of the infamous torture memo of 2002. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked Bradbury about the president's bizarre claim that the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision in fact "upheld his position on Guantánamo."

"Was the president right or was he wrong?" asked Leahy. "It's under the law of war--," said Bradbury. Leahy repeated his question: "Was the president right or was he wrong?" Bradbury then delivered his immortal reply: "The president is always right."

Bradbury meant more than that Bush personally is "always right." He had condensed into a phrase the legal theory of presidential infallibility. In his capacity of commander in chief, the president can never be wrong, simply because he is president. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan that presidential powers in foreign policy do not override or supplant those that the Constitution assigns to Congress, Bradbury instinctively fell back on the central dogma of the Bush White House. According to the doctrine, the rule of law is just an expression of executive fiat. He can suspend due process of detainees, conduct domestic surveillance without warrants, and decide which laws and which parts of laws he will enforce by appending signing s

VIDEO - Matthews, Buchanan slam neocons for Mideast 'warmongering'

David Edwards
Published: Thursday July 20, 2006

Appearing on MSNBC, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan -- along with MSNBC host Chris Matthews -- slammed neoconservatives for what Buchanan described as Mideast 'warmongering' surrounding the crisis in Lebanon.

In his latest column, Buchanan also said that the Bush administration's unwavering support for Israel, as it imposes "deliberate suffering on civilians" and "collective punishment on innocent people" through its attacks on Lebanon, is "un-American and un-Christian."

RUSH transcript follows video.

Click here for video

MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELIS TARGET CHRISTIAN PART OF BEIRUT

Beirut, 19 July (AKI) - Israeli warplanes targeted for the first time a Christian area of eastern Beirut on Wednesday morning. No one was reportedly injured in the attack. Two trucks were hit near the department store 'Abc' in the heart of the Ashrafiyah neighbourhood. The two vehicles were however not reportedly transporting missiles as initially thought. Residents panicked and took to the streets after the raid. "We aren't safe here anymore," Ratiba Naaman told Adnkronos International (AKI).

A 73-year-old Palestinian refugee who moved to Lebanon in 1948, Naaman wondered: "Why are they attacking these areas? It is them who are the terrorists."

Carole Haddad, who owns a pharmacy near the 'Abc' department store, said: "I hate Nasrallah (the leader of the Shiite guerrille Hesbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran) and his warmongers, I hate Iran, but I am also Lebanese and cannot stand that my country is destroyed. The Israelis are terrorists like Ahmadinejad."

Most residents of Ashrafiyah were expected to leave their homes on Wednesday.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.322578407&par=

Posted by not sam at July 20, 2006 02:51 PM

Pravda-like Fox; reusing the gulags in Eastern Europe; utter morons gaining more and more power

... well, it's "deja vu all over again"

I claimed it immediately after the '04 election.

Has anyone else noticed that you can see Bush's
true demon self when he's on TV lately?

A lot of people have been saying that Bush looks
more crazy and deranged than ever but my EYE has
been able to see his real demon.

Bush IS....evil on legs.

Third of Lebanon casualties are children, says UN

Nearly one third of all casualties in the Lebanon-Israel conflict have been children, according to the United Nations’ emergency relief co-ordinator, Jan Egeland.

He said it appeared neither Hezbollah nor the Israelis seemed to care about civilian suffering.

Nearly a third of the dead or wounded were children and the wounded could not be helped because roads and bridges had been cut by Israeli air strikes.

The Soviet circle is complete.

There is no escape from your... destiny.

Don't Forget the Bloodletting in Iraq

Katrina vanden Heuvel

With the Middle East on the cusp of war, President Bush's foreign policy for the area--remaking the region through invasion and occupation--is now effectively buried under the rubble of bombed out buildings, decimated bridges and civilian bodies.

The ongoing sectarian carnage in Iraq now barely makes it onto the front pages--and television is filled with the latest, horrifying scenes of devastation from the region. But Jessica Stern's op-ed, in Saturday's New York Times, is a powerful reminder of why we must not lose sight of ending the US occupation of a ravaged Iraq. Stern, a leading expert on terrorism, argues that our continuing occupation--and the growing number of revelations of US military atrocities (which she points out "are likely to proliferate the longer we remain in Iraq") will vastly increase the pool from which Al Qaeda and its sympathizers can recruit new members and supporters. As she reports, the latest Al-Qaeda video "tries to recruit ordinary American Muslims who might be offended, as many ordinary Americans are, by America's mistakes and moral failings in carrying out the war on terrorists." What Stern is saying is that this Administration's policies are actually increasing the possibility of future terrorist acts here in the US.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=102347

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi soldiers have launched an operation outside the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to rout out al Qaeda terrorists blamed for killing dozens of Iraqi soldiers and police in recent weeks.

Acting on the request of local Sunni Arab leaders, the joint forces on Thursday surrounded the towns of Hawija and Riyadh -- west of Kirkuk -- as part of Operation Gaugamela. The operation is named after a 4th century battle won by Alexander the Great.

Hours after the operation launched, a car bomb targeting a police patrol detonated in central Kirkuk, killing five and wounding 12, according to Kirkuk police.

Six other Iraqis were killed Thursday in car bombings in Baghdad and Baiji, and fighting in Anbar province claimed the life of a U.S. Marine, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.

In the northern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Shula, a car bomb targeting civilians killed one and wounded six, Iraqi emergency police said.

Hours earlier, another car bomb exploded on a busy central Baghdad street killing three people and wounding 10, police said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/iraq.main/

Annan Criticizes Both Sides in Conflict

Jul 20, 1:13 PM (ET)

By EDITH M. LEDERER

(AP) United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan addresses members of the Security Council during a...
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Thursday for an immediate halt to the escalating conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia but said there were "serious obstacles to reaching a cease-fire."

Annan said Hezbollah's actions in launching rockets into Israel and abducting Israeli soldiers "hold an entire nation hostage" and set back prospects for Middle East peace.

But he also condemned Israel's "excessive use of force" and collective punishment of the Lebanese people, saying it had triggered a humanitarian crisis.

"While Hezbollah's actions are deplorable, and Israel has a right to defend itself, the excessive use of force is to be condemned," he told the Security Council.

Israel must make "a far greater and more credible effort ... to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure," he said.

Annan said the number of civilians affected by the conflict is now at 500,000, but he added that likely could increase. He based that estimate on information provided by a three-member U.N. team that visited the region and his own contacts.

Annan said mission members reported that many of the people they spoke to in the region noted that "whatever damage Israel's operations may be doing to Hezbollah's military capabilities, they are doing little or nothing to decrease popular support for Hezbollah in Lebanon or the region, but are doing a great deal to weaken the government of Lebanon."

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(AP) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton speaks to reporters after a Security Council ...
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Has anyone else noticed that you can see Bush's true demon self when he's on TV lately?

Posted by: Pyramid Patchouli at July 20, 2006 03:37 PM

Lame duck white knuckle low life ugly Americain?
If he tried that shoulder rub on Jacques Chirac he'd be rightly challenged to a duel.

Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman told reporters immediately after Annan's speech that there would be no cease-fire.

"We will do whatever is necessary," he said. "We have no timeline."

Gillerman said he was "disturbed" that Annan's report never mentioned the word "terror" or referred to Syria and Iran, which Israel accuses of being Hezbollah's sponsors.

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GOP Lawmakers Edge Away From Optimism on Iraq

By Jonathan Weisman and Anushka Asthana

Washington Post Staff Writers

Thursday, July 20, 2006; A01

Faced with almost daily reports of sectarian carnage in Iraq, congressional Republicans are shifting their message on the war from speaking optimistically of progress to acknowledging the difficulty of the mission and pointing up mistakes in planning and execution.

Rep. Christopher Shays (Conn.) is using his House Government Reform subcommittee on national security to vent criticism of the White House's war strategy and new estimates of the monetary cost of the war. Rep. Gil Gutknecht (Minn.), once a strong supporter of the war, returned from Iraq this week declaring that conditions in Baghdad were far worse "than we'd been led to believe" and urging that troop withdrawals begin immediately.

And freshman Sen. John Thune (S.D.) told reporters at the National Press Club that if he were running for reelection this year, "you obviously don't embrace the president and his agenda."

"The first thing I'd do is acknowledge that there have been mistakes made," Thune said.

Rank-and file Republicans who once adamantly backed the administration on the war are moving to a two-stage new message, according to some lawmakers. First, Republicans are making it clear to constituents they do not agree with every decision the president has made on Iraq. Then they boil the argument down to two choices: staying and fighting or conceding defeat to a vicious enemy.

The shift is subtle, but Republican lawmakers acknowledge that it is no longer tenable to say the news media are ignoring the good news in Iraq and painting an unfair picture of the war. In the first half of this year, 4,338 Iraqi civilians died violent deaths, according to a new report by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq. Last month alone, 3,149 civilians were killed -- an average of more than 100 a day.

"It's like after Katrina, when the secretary of homeland security was saying all those people weren't really stranded when we were all watching it on TV," said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.). "I still hear about that. We can't look like we won't

Hi toniD!

How ya feeling?

Israel's maximal option

Part of Israel's war strategy may be to push the Shiites out of Lebanon's south. That would be a humanitarian disaster -- and it won't work.

By Juan Cole

Jul. 19, 2006 | Haifa and Beirut, both usually bustling Mediterranean seaports whose terraced chalk apartment buildings and hotels rise abruptly from the aquamarine waves, are shadows of their usual selves this week, their streets empty, bars closed and shops locked up. Panicked tourists are fleeing or canceling their reservations, and the sanitation crews have to deal not with shawarma wrappers and beer bottles but with rubble and body parts. Everyone is wondering about the military objectives of the Israeli and Hezbollah leaderships, whose rash and immoral actions have brought their countries to this dangerous pass.

Beirut, of course, has taken the far heavier punishment, with dozens of buildings razed, massive bomb-produced potholes in the streets and frantic rescue crews carting away bloody bodies, mainly of civilians, including families and children. But Haifa is in greater shock, its inhabitants unused to taking direct enemy missile fire. Nor are they accustomed to seeing a bombed-out Israeli warship towed into the bay. The big international companies with offices not far from where the rockets landed include Microsoft, and the danger posed to Israel of capital flight in the billions dwarfs in magnitude the Lebanese losses of $100 million a day, mainly in forfeited tourism.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/salon024.html

Look at me me me Saint Tom Brokaw in action ... oh, he was impressed by Gore's film now, was he? And he gives Gore credit ... but, of course, acc. to press and punditry there is always something terribly wrong when the subject is Al Gore:

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TOM BROKAW’S OLD HABIT! Brokaw’s remark about Gore’s film recalled some key Howler History:
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2006

TOM BROKAW’S OLD HABIT: Mordant chuckles were heard in our halls when we read the AP report on Tom Brokaw. Brokaw was hosting a two-hour special on the subject of global warming. So the subject of Al Gore came up when he spoke with AP’s David Bauder:

BAUDER (7/7/06): Tom Brokaw is giving Al Gore some company in the effort to raise awareness of global warming.

The former NBC anchorman is host of "Global Warming: What You Need to Know," which doubles as an explainer and call to action for average Americans. It premieres [July 16] at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Channel.

Brokaw said he has seen and was impressed by "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore's documentary on the subject.

"It's the same science that we are drawing upon and it's irrefutable," he said. "I thought there was too much of Gore, but that's not my call. I thought it was very effectively done. To give credit to him, he's been on this issue for a long period of time.” ... read on

http://www.dailyhowler.com/

No, We're Not 'All Israelis Now'

Just because the neocons and al-Qaeda say it, doesn't make it so

by Peter J. Lynch

Even in an age when e-mail, word processors, and high-speed Internet connections allow writers to almost instantaneously publish glaringly inchoate offerings, it is not often that one comes across a work as poorly conceived as Larry Kudlow's contribution to National Review online (NRO) on Monday. In a piece less than 800 words long on the recent unpleasantness in the Middle East, NRO's economics editor provides enough hackneyed neocon propaganda, apologetics for limitless Israeli aggression, and plain old unhinged bluster to fill an entire book. The article, entitled "Israel's Moment, the Free World's Gain," is so crammed with ludicrous statements, so "target-rich" (to use a phrase from the armed forces vernacular the wannabe militarists at NRO would no doubt appreciate) that it could serve as a warning to aspiring authors to always have at least one other person read your work prior to publication.

The madness begins thus: "All of us in the free world owe Israel an enormous thank-you for defending freedom, democracy, and security against the Iranian cat's-paw wholly-owned terrorist subsidiaries Hezbollah and Hamas." Israel is not simply defending itself you see; it's nobly defending baseball, Mom, and apple pie too. Thanks, Israel. No one will complain about those billions of U.S. tax dollars you receive or protest your treatment of the Palestinians ever again. At least Kudlow waits until sentence number two to drag God into his fantasy world, pronouncing Israel's current crusade as, that's right, "the Lord's work." Some (the Pope, for example) might suggest that the Lord may have other, less destructive plans in mind for the Middle East – after all, He's originally from there – but what do they know?

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lynch.php?articleid=9353

Janeane is leaving... I have to say I'm very depressed and sad. When she burst on the scene a few years ago when there wasn't a single liberal voice out there..it was ecstatic!!!! I used to drive home listening to her and I'd cry and scream and honk my horn and yell out the window and ram rightwinger's car's and smash them off the road and laugh and scream and yell all the way home!! :)))) I'll miss you Janeane...and will never forget you. Don

Posted by: Don at July 20, 2006 02:39 PM

For the life of me, I can't figure out why Janeane doesn't want to get to know the bloggers...

Don't you love the moments when cons blame the fall of the Roman Empire on "rampant homosexuality," not a standing army and overexpansion?

I do.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why Janeane doesn't want to get to know the bloggers...

Posted by: the blogger formerly known as Rusty at July 20, 2006 03:57 PM

Hee ;)

but, wait ... weren't you the one posting childhood photos of her last night?

creepy ~

Miss Hollywood doesn't want to know anyone who isn't in the Hollywood clique.

creepy ~

Posted by: Catharine at July 20, 2006 03:59 PM

No, nostalgic -- those photos are readily available on the internet and in media articles she has done.

Catharine,

I've been checking up on weather and water temperatures in my old stomping grounds.

Here is the seven day weather forecast for Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I. (absolutely normal for this time of year):

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?site=SJU&llon=-65.002083&rlon=-64.464583&tlat=18.000417&blat=17.462917&smap=1&mp=1&map.x=58&map.y=117

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Atlantic surface temperatures for the last four weeks (the white areas are continents...you'll figure it out):

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/hurricane/atlsst.shtml

The Tigers won... again.

Again, Jim Leyland is the true god.

Seek salvation through him.

Catharine,

Sorry. I forgot to mention that your global warming post is what reminded me to check Atlantic tropical wave activity, etc.

I'm out 'til 7.

Again, Jim Leyland is the true god.

Seek salvation through him.

Posted by: Michael the genius, Platonic philosopher-king and anti-colonizer at July 20, 2006 04:03 PM

Probably the best manager in the game today...and even he couldn't handle Barry Bonds.

Hi toniD!

How ya feeling?

Posted by: Peter Dragon at July 20, 2006 03:48 PM

Hey Peter...doing okay! Sorry it took so long. Getting read for work!!

How's bout you?

Atlantic surface temperatures for the last four weeks (the white areas are continents...you'll figure it out):

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/hurricane/atlsst.shtml

Posted by: Crank Bait at July 20, 2006 04:02 PM

OK...

Bush on Larry King emphasized his love of exercise and encouraged people to find time for it. However he vetoed the stem cell bill. It is hard to exercise when you can't move. I think the only way Bush would reconsider his veto is if he could not exercise because of one of the many diseases stem cell research could lead to cure. I don't believe he would change his mind for his own daughter or wife. He only cares about himself and if he could not exercise he would just have to sit still with himself. George Bush doesn't care about disabled people. The sad thing is these diseases are progressive so while Bush is playing politics we are getting sicker.

Appearing on MSNBC, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan -- along with MSNBC host Chris Matthews -- slammed neoconservatives for what Buchanan described as Mideast 'warmongering' surrounding the crisis in Lebanon.

In his latest column, Buchanan also said that the Bush administration's unwavering support for Israel, as it imposes "deliberate suffering on civilians" and "collective punishment on innocent people" through its attacks on Lebanon, is "un-American and un-Christian."

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Now I know the world's coming to end. The day I agree with Pat Buchanan.

I kid. Actually, I've always agreed with his stance against the Iraq War.

"This is a time for truth. For America is about to make a momentous decision: whether to launch a series of wars in the Middle East that could ignite the Clash of Civilizations against which Harvard professor Samuel Huntington has warned, a war we believe would be a tragedy and a disaster for this Republic. To avert this war, to answer the neocon smears, we ask that our readers review their agenda as stated in their words. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. As Al Smith used to say, 'Nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.'

We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity."

Common ground.

Afternoon everyone. :)

Hey GBC!!

I agree with Buchanan on this one also. And Chris Mathews bounces around, so I don't know what to think of him!!

Sorry I can't stay. Work tonight. See you all mush later. After the show. I'll listen to the replay.

"Today, al-Qaida has not only regrouped, but it is on the march," Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Al-Qaida is now functioning exactly as its founder and leader, Osama bin Laden, envisioned it."

...

In the ensuing four years since the attack, the organization has evolved into what bin Laden set out to create: a fractured, worldwide movement inspired by bin Laden and united by a single vision, as well as a central organization that continues to direct the implementation of terrorist attacks.

...

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060719-035436-2715r

Now I know the world's coming to end. The day I agree with Pat Buchanan.

Posted by: GBC at July 20, 2006 04:11 PM

I once sent Pat Buchanan a campaign contribution. In my younger, unregenerate days. There, I've finally got that off my chest.

...while Bush is playing politics we are getting sicker....

Posted by: GoodbyeBush at July 20, 2006 04:10 PM

Yup .. he's a douchebag.

Has the Samuel Huntington paper been linked on this blog yet?

Hey GBC!

Good to see you!

The Real Cut-And-Runners

When it comes to running effective campaigns, the folks currently running the show at the national level have unparalleled skills. When it comes to governing, their lack of skill is equally remarkable. They've defunded the government, debased the agencies, exacerbated inequalities and are engaged in a massive risk shift by privatizing the safety net.

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They call it "starving the beast" but it's really their own version of "cut and run." Slash the budget, keep spending freely while you're in charge, then run from the inevitable mess that's coming.

And Chris Mathews bounces around, so I don't know what to think of him!!

Posted by: toniD at July 20, 2006 04:13 PM

If he gets any fatter, bouncing is the only way he'll be able to move. He's growing more chins than an incumbent congressman.

"President Bush today urged the Senate to renew a landmark civil rights law passed in the 1960s to stop racist voting practices in the South."

Funny? I didn't know Ohio was considered "the South."

//It's no wonder we're losing the "War on Terror (c)":

Based on what senior Afghans have explained in detail to American officials, Pakistan is now supporting the Taliban in a manner similar to the way it supported the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviets two decades ago.//

Some bad apples got in with our allies. It happens. And whenever we get bad apples...Apple Pie!!! Ice cream, too! Apple Pie Allah Mode.

What did really happen ...

WATCH or read the TRANSCRIPT and see what Noam Chomsky has to say re Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, the US, the Lebanon war and the problems and actions that led up to it ... and all those decade-long UN vetoes, too

You you wont hear it on TeeVee .... cause people like Joe Biden (saw him never happier on Larry King yesterday) would rather give up teeth bleaching that tell the truth.

A MUST READ or watch. Your time will be wisely spent:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/14/146258

It's not too late to say enough

By Yitzhak Laor

Israel has not been defeated in Lebanon because it has not bombed sufficiently and has not destroyed enough. Only self-censorship and the mystification of the Israel Defense Forces for many years have prevented the Israelis from learning what the IDF did to the Lebanese, and what the IDF's conceptual limitations are, as an organization whose strength is great and whose wisdom is definitely not. Only the insufferable status of the IDF in Israeli society has prevented Israelis who emerged by tooth and nail from the Lebanon War from pointing to the senior officers and saying: Enough.

Let us imagine the directors of Remedia (the importer of deficient baby formula that led to the death of three infants in 2003) explaining on television how to feed infants, or the engineers of the Versailles wedding hall (which collapsed during a May 2001 wedding that led to the death of 23 people) in Jerusalem explaining safety procedures. No one would let them finish a sentence. However, from the moment two reserve soldiers were abducted on the northern border - in the midst of killing in the Gaza Strip that is being conducted in a way similar to the destruction in Lebanon - the television channels defined the incident on the border as a crisis of the first rank, and generals from the previous war, the one that lasted for 16 years, and the fruits of which we are eating now, were brought respectfully to the studios.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/739501.html

9/11 will be here in two months!

Have You bought your 9/11 Gifts?

Apple Pie Allah Mode.

Posted by: conbo at July 20, 2006 04:19 PM

apples ice cream

and Muslims

Heya Cath!

Haven't had much time to be around during the daytime. Work has taken on a whole new meaning with the merging of Utah Easter Seals into our agency and the new fiscal year budget planning meetings going on. Also getting ready for DHS of Utah's annual rectal probe... err, audit.

Was on last night, and will be for Janeane's last two shows. We'll have us a cocktail later. :)

"And Chris Mathews bounces around, so I don't know what to think of him!!"

--

Chris Matthews says this today and tomorrow that and in between and during he tries to get as many words in as he possibly can. Spit-aflying. Because FOOD is just never enough for CM.

Prints

Posted by: conbo at July 20, 2006 04:23 PM

ur killing me today, girl.

Mourning Bands

Janeane is leaving... I have to say I'm very depressed and sad. ... I used to drive home listening to her and I'd cry and scream and honk my horn and yell out the window and ram rightwinger's car's and smash them off the road and laugh and scream and yell all the way home!! ...

Posted by: Don at July 20, 2006 02:39 PM

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For the life of me, I can't figure out why Janeane doesn't want to get to know the bloggers...

Posted by: the blogger formerly known as Rusty at July 20, 2006 03:57 PM

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Miss Hollywood doesn't want to know anyone who isn't in the Hollywood clique.

Posted by: Michael the genius, Platonic philosopher-king and anti-colonizer at July 20, 2006 04:01 PM

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That may be true, Mike, but I sorta doubt it. As in highly doubt it.

Speaking as someone who "out-wanda'ed" wanda in my day (I think I was the original "Janeane-sucks-as-a-radio-host-'n-here's-a-whole-buncha-reasons-why" troll on the scene; give up tilting at that perticklar window long, long ago), I don't think it's b/c of criticism that Janeane don't engage the blog neither (tho' she does appear to be insular inna way that most self-absorbed celebrities are).

No, I expect Janeane's reticence w/bloggers has more to do w/a two-fold danger:

1. the perils of attracting imbalanced fan-boy stalkers who "understand her like no one else can!", and

2. the perils of attracting duplicitous rage-'n-hate-filled crazed wingnuts who wanna harm and/or kill her merely for heatedly disagreeing w/our boy-king

Either would justify her lack of familiarity w/blog peoples, imo.

(Plus, maybe she's just skeered of inadvertently being kilt by the road-rage of a fellow traveler?)

Saw this last night while already depressed ... read it and weep:

BILL MAHER (another happy camper blogs at the Huffington Post oh happy blogosphero)

I Love Being on the Side of My President

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/i-love-being-on-the-side-_b_25375.html

OK...

Posted by: Catharine at July 20, 2006 04:10 PM

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Sorry. Didn't mean to insult you. It is an unusually broad satellite shot...probably a composite. I was zipping around the NOAA site through the East Atlantic and Central Atlantic and West Tropical Atlantic and East Caribbean and Caribbean and Gulf and Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles and the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands and through the Visible, Infrared, Enhanced, Temps, Winds, Water Vapor and god-knows what other satellite views...

...and I was pretty fucking confused most of the time.

It would be helpful if NOAA superimposed a little arrow on the satellite views that says "Africa" or "Kamchatka" or "You can see ono's house from here".

Sometimes I click the wrong link and, trust me, the west coast of Scotland isn't a particularly recognizable shape.

ur killing me today, girl.

Posted by: bibimimi~☆♪☥♪☥♪ £♡ at July 20, 2006 04:28 PM

Someone gave me a 9/11 calendar for 2007.

12 pictures of the WTC demolished, people crying,
Teddy Bears with broken hearts, Flags at half staff ect.

I tried to find that calendar on the website, but I couldn't. Anyway, I hung the calendar up. To remind me...Photo ops never die...Even if people do. :)

ur killing me today, girl.
Posted by: bibimimi~?????? £? at July 20, 2006 04:28 PM

Well, bibi, there must be a few around here that still have their teeth. The volunteer center called and I gotta go to Lafargeville and pick up a lady o take to the dentist.

Tilting at windows?

As in, what, Microsoft?

"Window" is like a windmill how?

Oy.

I is tilting like a pin-ball machine.

Posted by: dr at July 20, 2006 04:29 PM

I always thought "toniD" was Janeane?!?!?!?

Waiting for The Suspect Statue

To remind me...Photo ops never die...Even if people do. :)

Posted by: conbo at July 20, 2006 04:32 PM

I bow to thee...

Jonathan Chait: Is Bush Still Too Dumb to Be President?

Never seen this before..my laptop over heated and the display came back up upside down and backwards as I was booting up - then ran some command and went back the right way....this can't be good...

Apple Pie Allah mode!

Constance .. ya slay me!

this can't be good...
Posted by: A. at July 20, 2006 04:39 PM

For sure. That usually happens to a Dell just before it bursts into flame.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/14/146258

Posted by: bridge at July 20, 2006 04:20 PM

Thanks!

Apple Pie Allah mode!

Constance .. ya slay me!

Posted by: Willow at July 20, 2006 04:40 PM

this slays me from that article you posted:

Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine," paints a harrowing picture of Bush's intellectual limits. Bush, writes Suskind, "is not much of a reader." He prefers verbal briefings and often makes a horse-sense judgment based on how confident his briefer seems in what he's saying. In August 2001, the CIA was in a panic about an upcoming terrorist attack and drafted a report with the title, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." When a CIA staffer summed up the memo's contents in a face-to-face meeting with Bush, the president found the briefer insufficiently confident and dismissed him by saying, "All right, you've covered your ass, now," according to Suskind. That turned out to be a fairly disastrous judgment.

Hello Everyone. I just got back from the Doc.

She put me on Riperdal. I don't know if I want to take it.

Check it out.

Risperdal

"Window" is like a windmill how?

Posted by: dr at July 20, 2006 04:34 PM

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I figured you had your reasons.

Posted by: RWiley at July 20, 2006 04:41 PM

Oh....

Hmm...

Not good at all...

You screwing with me RW? Or for real? I have heard about some Dell batteries starting fires...

Never seen this before..my laptop over heated and the display came back up upside down and backwards as I was booting up - then ran some command and went back the right way....this can't be good...

Posted by: A. at July 20, 2006 04:39 PM

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For sure. That usually happens to a Dell just before it bursts into flame.

Posted by: RWiley at July 20, 2006 04:41 PM

__________

My guess is that after hangin' fire so long, alla them smoldering d/l's finally burst into flames.

"BUSH IS A DICTATOR JUST LIKE HITLER!!!!!"

Ergo, Hitler voluntarily left office and returned to his ranch in Austria in 1941 (8 years after assuming Chancellorship).

(thinking of starting a book of these things....bound to sell a few copies...hell, bound to sell 10X more than "FUBAR"...hehe!)

If it makes you feel any better, Shell .. my monitor is having sympathy pains for your laptop! It is jumping around like a Mexican Jumping Bean as line appear and disappear on the screen. : /

Ya Connie .. I like the park about him dislikin' the book learnin'!

Few Editorials Find Fault with the Bombing of Beirut

It's one thing to endorse Israel's right to defend itself and retaliate. It's another to remain silent on the crime of causing mass destruction and civilian deaths in neutral areas of Lebanon.

By Greg Mitchell

(July 18, 2006) -- While it’s not surprising that nearly every editorial page in the U.S. has offered support for Israel's right to retaliate against Hamas and Hezbollah, it’s a disgrace that few have expressed outrage, or at least condemnation, over the extent of death and destruction in and around Beirut -- and the attacks on the country’s infrastructure, which harms most citizens of that country.

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Lebanon, dozens of bridges and part of Beirut’s airport destroyed, power stations and ports short-circuited. Latest reports put the number of refugees at half a million, with thousands of Americans waiting for evacuation.

Amazingly, criticism of the extent of Israel's bombing -- and its policy of collective punishment -- has actually decreased as the carnage has mounted.

The editorial response is all the more scandalous because this is not some distant conflict where America is merely a third party. The U.S. is Israel’s prime (sometimes virtually its only) major ally, and the funder or producer of much of the armaments landing on Lebanon – though you’d never know of this special link from reading most of these editorials.

Even if readers here don’t fully appreciate it, the U.S. and Israel are indivisible in the eyes of many if not most in that region. Every bomb that kills civilians in Lebanon might just as well have emerged from our war planes or artillery, in their eyes.

Just months ago, many of these same editorial pages, along with our president, were hailing the growing evidence of democracy in Lebanon, calling it a new beacon for hope. Yet now one has to look far and wide (as E&P has) to find more than a few tut-tuts about Israel’s excessive air campaign in any editorial.

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